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In this paper, we study a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth structured difference-of-convex (DC) programs, which contain in the convex part the sum of a nonsmooth linearly composed convex function and a differentiable function, and in the…
Stochastic (sub)gradient methods require step size schedule tuning to perform well in practice. Classical tuning strategies decay the step size polynomially and lead to optimal sublinear rates on (strongly) convex problems. An alternative…
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Standard complexity analyses for weakly convex optimization rely on the Moreau envelope technique proposed by Davis and Drusvyatskiy (2019). The main insight is that nonsmooth algorithms, such as proximal subgradient, proximal point, and…
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We propose a robust and efficient approach to the problem of compressive phase retrieval in which the goal is to reconstruct a sparse vector from the magnitude of a number of its linear measurements. The proposed framework relies on…
We introduce and study various algorithms for solving nonconvex minimization with inequality constraints, based on the construction of convex surrogate envelopes that majorize the objective and the constraints. In the case where the…
We propose a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method that can incorporate adaptive sampling for stochastic nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problems with upper-C^2 objectives. Upper-$\Ctwo$ functions can be viewed as…
This paper proposes a precise signal recovery method with multilayered non-convex regularization, enhancing sparsity/low-rankness for high-dimensional signals including images and videos. In optimization-based signal recovery, multilayered…
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In this paper, we develop a new decomposition technique for solving bi-objective linear programming problems. The proposed methodology combines the bi-objective simplex algorithm with Benders decomposition and can be used to obtain a…
In this paper, we consider nonlinear optimization problems with a stochastic objective function and deterministic equality constraints. We propose an inexact two-stepsize stochastic sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm and…
Stochastic gradient method (SGM) has been popularly applied to solve optimization problems with objective that is stochastic or an average of many functions. Most existing works on SGMs assume that the underlying problem is unconstrained or…
The signal demixing problem seeks to separate a superposition of multiple signals into its constituent components. This paper studies a two-stage approach that first decompresses and subsequently deconvolves the noisy and undersampled…
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In this paper, we explore a specific optimization problem that combines a differentiable nonconvex function with a nondifferentiable function for multi-block variables, which is particularly relevant to tackle the multilinear…
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For bilevel programs with a convex lower level program, the classical approach replaces the lower level program with its Karush-Kuhn-Tucker condition and solve the resulting mathematical program with complementarity constraint (MPCC). It is…